ABOUT THE 26 YANKEE DIVISION
Greetings!
The 26th Yankee Infantry Division World War Two Historic Reenactor Group is an organization commemorating the US Army Infantryman during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. We are just average every day citizens with the enthusiasm of preserving their history during this period of time in the important history of the United States of America.
Just like the citizens of the time, we are a slice of the general US population, with a host of personnel from a variety of employment backgrounds including students, cooks, law-enforcement, teachers, and professors, restaurant employees, city workers, bank employees, and veterans and non-veterans alike. Those who sign on with us do for many reasons, whether with respect for their father’s or grandfather’s who served, or to continue to enjoy the camaraderie by those with previous military service, or those interested in our great nation’s military history. Also, many sign-on for the sake of honoring those that have served before us.
We are New England based, and our members primarily come from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, up-state New York, and Rhode Island. By participating in living history displays, period USO dances, and accurate Infantry tactics of the day, our Unit ‘keeps the memory alive’, and educates the general public in WWII history, activities, military bearing, equipment, weapons, and uniforms of the soldiers we proudly portray.
Through a professional dedicated Instructor Cadre, we utilize numerous wartime manuals, Unit history books, and a variety of internet searches to accurately portray the soldiers of the ‘greatest generation’, that we proudly represent. When you serve with us, you are taken back into time, and get the opportunity to live and function similar to how they did, hence one is literally ‘living history’.
If you have an interest in World War Two living history, contact us, and if you meet our enlistment criteria, we’d gratefully welcome you into our reenacting/living history world, for it’s more than a hobby, it is a way of giving back, and serving your own communities.
We are often asked ‘where do you find all the gear and equipment’? Well, it takes a good eye, better research, and knowledge gained through the assistance of other Unit members to source period correct uniforms, weapons, equipment, vintage military vehicles, all to preserve the history of the ‘greatest generation’.